My folder structure has changed and as a result I have to relink all my files from this project. However because it is such a large project, whilst AE automatically tries to find the rest of the files it crashes. I have tried this on different machines on both Mac and Windows but am getting the exact same result every time.

Using AE 2017.2

Is there a way to turn off the automatic locating of certain footage so that i can just link 50 at a time or something? I have deadlines to package this project up so this is very frustrating.

Update: This is only crashing on the latest update, Now the problem is that it is not auto finding any files, I have 300+ images that are in the same folder they used to be just with a different folder name now. for some reason they are not being found even when i locate one of them.

In order to just get this done quickly, could you Save As version 13, open it in CC 2014, and relink your footage there? If you used any of the new features, this will lose them, but it's worth a shot...